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Scottag Cairn is a Bronze Age burial monument located in Caithness, in the far north of Scotland. The cairn consists of a substantial stone mound constructed over an inhumed burial, typical of funerary practices in northern Britain during the second millennium BCE. The site remains one of several Bronze Age cairns in the Caithness landscape that attest to the ritual and burial customs of ancient communities in this region. Such monuments are significant for understanding the social organisation and ceremonial practices of prehistoric northern Scotland.
Scottag Cairn is a scheduled monument protected by Historic Environment Scotland under reference SM3986. View the official record →
Scottag Cairn is a Bronze Age burial monument located in Caithness, in the far north of Scotland. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic Environment Scotland under reference SM3986.
Scottag Cairn is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by Historic Environment Scotland — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in Scotland. The official designation reference is SM3986.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Bilbster, chambered cairn 1040m NNE of Bylbster Bridge (2.6 km), Grey Cairn, broch 475m SE of Lynegar (2.6 km), Green Hill Broch, 40m W of Grant Hall (3.3 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 14 strands of Scottag Cairn's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
Every location is different. Not every section appears for every place, only what the historical record actually holds turns up in a report.
Scottag Cairn stands on Middle Old Red Sandstone (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Middle Devonian. The rock here is conglomerate, sandstone, siltstone and mudstone.